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Wednesday, October 16, 2013

THE CONVERSATION

Walking past my neighbor's house

two black pit bulls

send up a raucous greeting.

WOOF, WOOF,

Bark, bark, bark.

Then a cactus wren

chatters a reply.

TWEET, TWEET,

Cheep, cheep, cheep.

They keep at it.

WOOF, WOOF,

Bark, bark, bark.

TWEET, TWEET,

Cheep, cheep, cheep.

The highs and lows of it.

WOOF, WOOF,

Bark, bark, bark.

TWEET, TWEET,

Cheep, cheep, cheep.

Each trying for the last word.

This is a poem that could be done in three voices as a group poem. Have you ever had a conversation, or an argument where one person tries to have the last word? By the time you've reached that point, you have information you want the other person to have, but they aren't listening. Let me repeat that--They aren't listening. So if you reach the point where one person is trying to have the last word, you aren't really having a conversation and both parties are wasting their time. It is like the dogs and the bird, they are only making noise to hear themselves.

If you reach the point where people won't listen to you, it is time to take yourself off to figure out what that person will listen to. What is important to that person? What do they want to talk about? There just aren't enough good listeners in this world.

Can you write a poem about listening, or about sound today? Have fun writing."Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different." Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Nobel prize winning physician

1 comment:

Joy,I love how you wrote this as an interactive poem. This is also a great tool for teaching listening skills. Difficult topics such as how to handle disagreements are often taught through use of animals. You did just that. Very well done. I'm passing this one on to a counselor friend. Thanks for all your many great poems!

About Me

Joy Acey, the Princess of Poetry, has won many prizes for her poems. She published in Highlight's HIGH FIVE, and The Poetry Friday Anthologies. She is a performance artist and conducts writing workshops for children and adults. She’s hopped a freight train to ride in a boxcar over the world's second largest wooden trestle bridge. She was on a TV game show and won enough money for a trip to Australia. She has lived in England and Japan. She has walked across a volcano in Hawaii and a glacier in New Zealand. She has gone swimming with iguanas in the Galapagos and was in Ecuador during a revolution. She visited the rainforest in Peru, went on safari in Kenya and walked The Great Wall in China. Always looking for new adventures to write about, she currently lives in Kauai, Hawaii with her husband Jeffrey Frelinger, an immunologist. She has two grown sons and two fabulous daughters-in-law.